China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon

We might want to understand:

The rate at which solar radiation impacts one side of lunar rock vs another (all the specimens were sampled with their orientation photographed). The composition of different lunar materials in different places. The alignment of various internal crystal or magnetic elements to better understand the moon and Earth's history. If we get very lucky, we might pick up a rock that came from Mars, or somewhere else, and we can understand the creation of our own solar system. Solar radiation leaves its mark on the rocks, and provides us a record of our sun's history if we can learn to read it.

We might want to understand whether a lunar regolith sample was capable of sustaining life, but the way we do that is not just grab the existing samples and put a seed in them. They are far too rare and precious. Better to try and understand everything about them and their formation, then try to create as accurate a simulation as possible.

"Image processing has now shown that two cotton leaves had grown—rather than just one as initially thought—in what was the first biological growth experiment on the moon."

I wasn't aware it was controversial to use an IDE without word-wrap. I do not have it enabled on any of my editors.

Yes? I find word wrap in code really weird.

I don't want to hit 'j' and drop down two 'lines' because what I thought was the next line was actually the end of this line.

I also don't want to hit '$' and go not to the end of the 'line' but somewhere below (and potentially left) because of the same.

But I also don't want to hit '$' and go out into space to the right and lose context from the surrounding reasonably-lengthed lines.

Just use the return key and nobody has to worry about whether to wrap or not to wrap.

Posts that interleave their content with quoted bits are rarely as constructive as they think (almost always just point-by-point bickering) that I find impossible to follow no matter what formatting they could've used for the quotes.

Also a single ">" prefix on a long wrapped line is a bit of internet convention with younger crowds probably thanks to 4chan. I doubt most people using it these days even remember seeing it in emails.

If anything, HN should post-process lines that start with ">" to indent them.